Our First "Sick Interview"...

I just got an email from one of the journos at The Columbia Chronicle to conduct an interview about "Sickest F***ing Stories". This is pretty exciting, because I'd always thought that the college crowd would be a PERFECT match for the show. The only problem is that they want to do the interview for next week's paper and the show doesn't play again until January. Ah well, I'll see if I can't push the publication back until December. Or at least mention that date in the article. At the very least, it'll get the show on the college kids radars and we'll see where we go from there. (Or, as a happy bonus, send confused college kids to go see the BBR in December - IF they can get tickets for it.)

So, the word of mouth continues to spread about the show. That's pretty great. Last week, we expected to have about 25 - 30 people see the show. Instead, we had around 50 all told (some were comps and half-price tickets that I offered to future storytellers of the show), but we DID make enough money to pay rent, give the performers a small stipend, buy them a round or two of drinks AND reimburse Greg for some of his investments in the show. If we have another show like last months, we will be caught up financially and be able to put some cash behind the promo stuff that we want to do. (Business Cards for me to promote the show to "higher stakes" guests, Banners for outside the theater on the night of the show, posters, postcards, etc.) So, things are looking up.

Additionally, I got a whole disk of AMAZING pictures from the September show, taken by my good friend, Matt Dolinar. (Incidentally, if you need pictures taken for anything, ANYTHING, be it holidays, shows, parties, headshots, etc., give Matt a call. He's fast. He has a good eye for composition and action. He has amazing timing too. And he works fast. He'll burn you a disk of your pics on the night that he takes them. So he has immediate turn-around. And because he's new to "Theater Photography", he's cheap and hungry for business. He's really great about negotiating a price that you can actually pay to get him. Check out his website and shoot him an email, if you can use him. You'll be glad that you did.) Look for Matt's SFS pics to show up on our website, sometime soon. I want to create a photograph page for any journos who interview us.

I'm also working to line up our casts for the next year of SFS. It's crazy how the first half of the year is already lining up as easily as it is. I'm sure that there will be "speed-bumps" in the show's future, with getting these casts, but for now, most of the people that I approach are very interested in doing the show.

Here's a little sneak peek at next year's lineup...

JANUARY - "Eff the Playground" Night - In addition to the usual gang of retards, we'll also be hosting Matt Barbera, the president of the Playground and his close friend, Mike Dwyer. Comedian Jared Logan is also playing, that night.

FEBRUARY - "Ladies Night" - The whole table will be stocked with the vilest, dirtiest, nastiest lady improvisers that I can find. I plan to work box office and be horrified, standing off to the side.

MARCH - "Producers Night" - Here's my dream cast for this show, "The Annoyance's" Mick Napier, "The Neo-Futurists" Greg Allen, "CIF & BAssprov's" Mark Sutton, "WNEP's" Don Hall and myself. (And I fully recognize that I barely deserve a seat at that table. But then again, I produce the show, I get to make rat-bastard decisions like that and give myself cherry seats at the table, if I want to.) This show should kick all sorts of ass.

APRIL - "April Fools" - The cast members of "Blewt Productions" have expressed interest in hosting their own night of SFS. I would probably surrender the table to them for that show. I think that Tyler Lansdowne will probably end up hosting that show.

Look at that crackerjack lineup! And that's just the first 4 shows! Who knows what kind of crazy shit we can come up with, in the rest of the coming year?!? (I will state for the record, that I want at least ONE psychic to play in our Halloween 2008 show!)

I'm excited about the interview.
I'm thrilled by the lineup.
I'm dedicated to the website revamps.
I'm happy to see the show growing, as I naturally thought that it would.

Things are looking sicker every day...

Cheers,
Mr.B


One of the shows founders...and a giant pair of bulls balls.